Posted on 04/30/2008 7:21:35 PM PDT by milestogo
‘Karzai killing plot hatched in Pakistan’
Thursday, May 01, 2008 KABUL: The plot to kill President Hamid Karzai over the weekend was hatched in lawless tribal areas of neighbouring Pakistan, the Afghan intelligence chief said on Wednesday.
Intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh said there was no evidence that Pakistan's government or its intelligence agencies were involved in the assassination attempt on Sunday. "We have no evidence whether ... the operation has had any mercy or go ahead from the government of Pakistan and (its) special agencies," Saleh told reporters in Kabul.
"There (is) very, very strong evidence suggesting that Pakistan's soil once again has been used to inflict pain on our nation."
The militants involved in the weekend plot were in phone contact with people in Pakistan's Bajaur and North Waziristan tribal areas and Peshawar, he said.
In an initial reaction, Pakistan army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said the allegation that the attack on Karzai had its roots in Pakistan's tribal areas appeared "baseless". "Anybody can say that militants (in the tribal areas) have done this or that," Abbas said, adding, "How can one validate such claims?"
The tribal areas of Pakistan are a serious problem. We are going to have to find a way to deal with it.
We are permitting SANCTUARIES for the enemy, and we are not attacking the supporters of the enemy....
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